"On the wanderings of bodies, heavenly or otherwise"
HI all, I hope your summer has been and continues to be beautiful. Due to some creative and conceptual setbacks, I've set the viola concerto aside for the time being. I think I might have written myself into a hole, and I need to give my subconscious some time to work out how to write myself out of it. In the meantime, I've been working on several new projects, including one for violin and cello entitled "Orbits." As the majority of you know, I'm obsessed with astronomy and a
On the notion of "Furcations"...
As you all may or may not know, I've been working on a larger piece for some time now - a Double Viola Concerto. The concept upon which the whole piece is based is that of "Furcations," which is a bit of a bastardization of a generally scientific term for "split into parts" or "forked." Merriam-Webster defines it here. The most common uses are in medicine - especially dentistry - and biology, where an oyster is a "bifurcate mollusk." Rivers are often "bifurcate" when geologis
